Just as I expected, when the boat reached Leavenworth, I found a general round-up of friends at the landing to receive us.

The trees along the banks of the stream were literally alive with wild turkeys, and after unsaddling the horses between two and three hundred soldiers surrounded a grove of timber and had a grand turkey round-up, killing four or five hundred of the birds, with guns, clubs and stones.

As there is nothing but hard work on these round-ups, having to be in the saddle all day, and standing guard over the cattle at night, rain or shine, I could not possibly find out where the fun came in, that North had promised me.

"To-morrow is Sunday," Old Heck announced suddenly with startling distinctness, "and we'll get things in shape to begin the beef round-up on Monday!"

Each one of you can ride your regular 'string' this year"alluding to the term used to designate the group of several horses used exclusively by each individual rider working on a round-up.

Generally speaking, the term used to be applied to all those who were engaged in handling the cattle, and in getting them together on the occasion of the annual round-ups.

It was a veteran of many a round-up.

He learned to lasso and bring down an obdurate steer, to give valuable help in the round-ups, to assist in branding the registered trademark of his father on the haunches of his animals.

It happens quite often that the round-up fails to gather in all the cattle.

In the summer of 1891 the rustlers ran waggons openly on all the three great round-ups, and worked the round-up just as if they were a regular Association outfit.

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You drag them to court twice a yearthe farmer at seed time and harvest, the cowman from the spring and fall round-ups.

At Upham the rest of them were to unload and string out across the Jornado, so as to cut Chris off from the Bar Cross round-up at Alaman.

He started in with the Starr people at the spring round-up.

Flora he afterward saw intermittently while they danced a quadrille together, and she made it plain that she had not considered Billy as her partner; how could she, when he was trailing around over the country with the round-up, and nobody knew whether he would come or not?

It seemed to Billy, in the short time that the round-up crew was camped by the creek, that no situation could be more intolerable than the one he must endure.

"On all three divisions of the last round-up there were something like two thousand," replied Baugh.

During the spring months, when the boys were away on the various round-ups, he planted and raised a fine garden.

We visited other camps on hatched excuses, until the home round-ups began.

There were men to be sent on the eastern, western, and middle divisions of the general round-up of the Strip.

When the men who had gone that year on the round-up on the western division returned, there was a man from Reece's camp in the Strip, east on Black Bear, who asked permission to leave about a dozen cattle in the Pool.